Google's Chrome Web Store is now warning that the uBlock Origin ad blocker and other extensions may soon be blocked as part of the company's deprecation of the Manifest V2 extension specification.

Popular extensions like uBlock Origin, which are based on the Manifest V2 framework, will encounter compatibility problems with Chrome’s transition to Manifest V3. Google Chrome is prompting users to ...

Adblock Plus is one of the most popular extensions for Chrome with more than 10 million users and 150,000 glowing reviews. However, a spammer was recently able to infiltrate the Chrome web store with ...

Although the new extension API of Google Chrome, Manifest V3, was announced in 2019, Google halted its deployment last year due to the massive amount of criticism it received. Manifest V3 aimed to ...

Bottom line: After years of delaying the adoption of Manifest V3, Google is now moving forward and accelerating the process. Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome's inferior ...

Popular Chrome extensions like 'Adblock for Chrome' and 'WAToolkit' were among 16 hijacked in a large-scale attack, compromising 3.2 million users by injecting malicious scripts for fraud and ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack Amazon affiliate links, steal data, and collect ChatGPT authentication tokens. In late January, Socket ...